* MS email customers looking at instability. Microsoft has this problem with all their hosted services--especially during my time on Spaces. Now it's Hotmail, which is related to their Office Live email services. Seems Microsoft is increasing capacity to steal some of Yahoo's thunder. The upgrade'll be good but users are going to be suffering from some services glitches for a while. (Source: InfoWorld) * Cisco i * MS email customers looking at instability. Microsoft has this problem with all their hosted services–especially during my time on Spaces. Now it’s Hotmail, which is related to their Office Live email services. Seems Microsoft is increasing capacity to steal some of Yahoo’s thunder. The upgrade’ll be good but users are going to be suffering from some services glitches for a while. (Source: InfoWorld)* Cisco introes new SMB certification & products. Cisco announces a new certification, called ‘Select,’ which will focus on its SMB-oriented products and services. They also showed off a new line of voice and data products aimed at companies with 50 or fewer employees.–called, appropriately for once, the Small Business Communications System. Gonna steal some thunder from Microsoft’s Response Point. (Source: eChannel Live)* Lenovo announces consumer unit. The folks smart enough to buy the ThinkPad line are fighting to sell PCs outside their home area and core expertise (business). So they’ve announced a new consumer division, tho we haven’t seen specific products out of it yet. (Source: InformationWeek) * Kiss that VGA port goodbye. Still a couple of years out before they actually disappear, DVI and VGA ports for monitors and projectors are nevertheless dead in the water. That’s because the VESA org just approved the DisplayPort 1.1 spec. Faster, supports hi-def, smaller plugs and more. Downside is that it also integrated Blu-Ray’s DRM, tho I’m not sure what that’s doing in the vid port. (Source: BetaNews) Technology Industry